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In case it's not entirely clear, the font ridicules the practice of gerrymandering: toying with electoral district borders so that the results favor the incumbent while corralling the voters of the adversaries. So extensive is this pra
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The polygraph is entirely scientific in the way it actually works: eliciting forced confessions under psychological coercion. However, for that coercion to be effective, the targets and the public at large must be convinced of a pseudoscien
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There should be only one parameter that governs the eligibility to specialist visas: the ability to earn a high wage. Companies should bid directly with the salary, and the top X offers get a Visa; the candidate is free to change jobs but i
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Can we, endpoints outside Kazakhstan, detect when a MITM client is connected and serve a boiler plate message "Untrusted connection"? If enough high level sites do this (Google, Cloudflare, Wikipedia etc) it might force the hand o
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Do these techniques make it easier or harder to implement hardware floating point units? Storage and transmission speed have progressed exponentially while execution units have become the bottleneck. A floating point format that is 20% dens
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But if Cloudflare is the point of aggregation and the ISP can no longer distinguish between what, according to UK law, is legal and illegal traffic, then... surely the legal onus of performing the filtering will fall on Cloudflare? When the
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Infrastructure is demand driven. You don't plan a business district and start to dig subway tunnels under agricultural land. The city develops until it needs a subway, which is then dug under the most dense areas. Property up-zoneing i
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In other news that we desperately miss, Sweden has developed a turbojet engine that runs on an ethanol-rapeseed blend. The completely green fuel is farmed on reclaimed land in Sahara, using a pesticide free automated farm based on solar rob
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I would be very surprised if Dragon did not include the 21st century equivalent of the Apollo 8-ball, manual translation controller and stick. NASA is a very conservative organization and if there is a lesson to be learned from past near di
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By attaching it to a steel balloon filled with breathing gas, which can provide lift in the Venusian atmosphere. Inside the baloon you get a really nice habitat with the correct Temperature, pressure and gas composition for humans to live i
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Ebolla spreads and is endemic in countries with very poor health systems and emergency response. It's a very virulent disease that can be stopped in it's tracks with standard disinfection and quarantine rules observed in any first
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If browsers break 3rd party cookies and they are not fingerprintable, the arms race stops: there is no way to track a client across multiple sites, other than weak correlations with IP, interests, etc.
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In that fecal analogy, Mozilla is a fresh cup of coffee from squirrel-digested coffee beans, while Chrome is a neck deep swim in human sewage. The privacy points you raise are significant but at no point discredit the very real privacy effo
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I strongly agree. There is no legitimate functionality that can't be implemented without 3rd party cookies. Some sites will break at first until they are fixed, and we could have a whitelist for a while, while making it very cumbersome
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Something like an Android clone is a conglomeration of many, many different projects.
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It's a devil's bargain: now we have to choose between walled gardens that offer some privacy and extract their revenue from lock-in, and more open systems that live off spying our data. Truth be told, the software development cost
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This works in a social setting, a community, a market but it's much less likely to work against countries as a whole. The policy makers respond to local voters (at best) not other countries. We've named and shamed China for a few
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The temperature differential between what the hottest chips can accept, about 70C, and the environment suggests this is a highly inefficient source of energy, due to Carnot limits. I wish people would go for the big guns, fully renewable en
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Sure they trade. But when China slaps you with a tariff, as it has done for a thousand years, you no longer have a 400 million consumer gorilla on your side. Apparently, this is a good thing and testament to a country's sovereignty.
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This has to be the result of some incentive structure that rewards border personnel whenever any scrap of evidence for illegal intention is found. No policeman I ever met was ever so thorough with their job. It's deliberate emigration
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We can't answer that question on economics, but surely one of the two will happen, either mass recycling or lithium abundance. We won't get to the point of "running out".
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>it is hard for me to imagine it will take almost 20 years You are drastically over-estimating the propensity for change of the majority of the population. In Europe we have diesel versus gasoline wars with supporters of each side declar
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Let's assume used car batteries can extend their lives 2x as grid storage - dubious, since the probability of cascading failure increases exponentially after some point. Even then, it doesn't mean they won't get recycled clos
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1 Billion cars require about 20% of the known reserves of lithium and recycling can be done with low losses. New types of batteries are developed that use less lithium or other materials. At current prices and technology, the raw material p
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Air taxis will become possible only when a quiet method of vertical take off and landing is developed, if ever. No current VTOL lightweight aircraft would be able to gain even experimental status in an urban environment, let alone thousands
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> They then report that missing car to the police. We're playing with words. That's an implicit accusation, our car is missing and we believe someone stole it. Furthermore, the last person to rent it out was X. I'm sure yo
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Oh, it's a computer bug, see, no biggie, we all get those, right? Those darn computers, they sure are a handful. I can't accept that. What happened here is that Hertz, as a rational and responsible entity, reported lawfully rented
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> People need houses to live in I'm sure very few owners of multiples houses let them empty and not rent them out so that people can live in them. Houses are expensive, even outside their speculative value, in terms of raw materials
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Upzoning increases the value of the land, but decreases the value of pre-existing built square footage, since it's no longer an exclusivist area. If you have a brand new mansion built to the highest standards on the premise that it wil
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A.k.a individuals who accept whatever deadline is imposed onto them and work round the clock to meet it instead of telling management they failed to properly assign time and resources to the project.

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